Here's the first part of mech building series which looks at building the piece. The next part will cover painting.
This is a ray gun that I made out of some cast resin pieces. It was one of those occasions where a few bits and pieces made for different projects just happen to fit together perfectly and just beg to be made into something. I've built up abit of a library of cast bits and pieces now so I'm increasingly finding myself using them to build projects.
I recently attended Steampunks in Space, an event held in the National Space Center in Leicester. I've attended several times previously, but it's always really nice to be able exhibit my models, sculptures, costumes pieces and props. Here's a video and some pics.
Here's a video looking at a steampunk bracer that I made a while back.
Here are some videos covering vacuum degassing silicone and pressure casting resin. I've shown the process in various of my videos previously but I thought it might be useful to have some videos specifically about it for reference. These videos were made at the same time so they're designed to go hand in hand.
I think there's often some confusion as to when you would vacuum degas something and when you would pressure cast something, certainly when I first came to start doing this I was a little bit confused as to when you would use both processes. Generally speaking you vacuum degas silicon when you're making a mould. Pressure casting is used when you are pouring resin into a mould to create a cast and the idea is that you put the mould and casting material within it under pressure. What that does is to cause any bubbles that get trapped in your mould to be crushed down to tiny points, thus eliminating any air bubbles in your cast.
Bioshock inspired mask is finally finished.
So I've finally finished my mask (more or less!). I struggled a little with the direction of this one, as while I had the form down, I wasn't sure on the paint scheme. My previous mask had a very clear direction which I lacked a little for this one. Once I settled on making something that could fit into the bioshock games however, things came together quite nicely.
Here's a quick vid of the costume.
And here's part 3 of my build series.
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